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...Millionaire for Christy (Thor Productions; 20th Century-Fox) falls, with a resounding thud, under the heading of madcap romantic farce. Heroine Christy (Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money...
...heavy thud that follows is caused as much by Irish whisky as English bullets. It is this mixing of noble and ignoble motives that gives Insurrection its salty, human tang. By sticking close to the theme and laying it out in the plainest of prose styles, Author O'Flaherty gives the sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along...
...Family and Community in Ireland. The book joined the others behind the laundry case. Essays on Sociological Theory. The dust was coming up from the laundry box now as the books hit. Vag worked his way to the bottom of the box, watched a copy of Plato's "Republic" thud into the pile, and then stood up. That had been his first textbook...
...shaky. The hooks were not wide enough for the wall. But one by one our men disappeared over the sea wall. It came my turn and I climbed the ladder and hit the top of the wall. I threw one leg over it and rolled. I landed with a thud in the ditch Sam had said would be there...
...chow (or book) line became for many an ogre so clear-cut that they can no longer stand in line for anything. Losing to Yale grew to be another unhappy habit. These are not, of course, the sort of memories one should carry away--one should remember the thud of shoe against pigskin, or the setting sun casting its last golden rays across the Charles. But they are the peculiar matters that stick in the front of the mind...